I'm learning RSpec for a while and reading some articles, books and other resources. But I wonder if is there any complete real life Rails project, that using RSpec, with source codes available to examine. I study some gems and Ruby projects but still I think it would be better to see a Rails project's source code in action.
Discourse is a large, real world project you could take a look at.
They use RSpec and you can view all their testing code here.
Another huge open source rails app using rspec is spree commerce https://github.com/spree/spree
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I'm diving into a large existing Ruby on Rails 3.2 project using Git for version control and am looking to get a quick overview of the project, especially what sections of the code are being most actively developed.
I think I recall there being a gem or a rake task or something to help with this but can't recall any specifics. I've searched StackOverflow and Google without any luck. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I have an existing Rails app that I built using Rails 3, Mongoid/Mongodb and Devise. The app is running fine. I'd now like to add some tests to it (sure, shoulda done this in the beginning but the learning curve for just Rails was enough...).
I've used several pages to get it going, especially the Rails guide and this blog post about Mongo and Cucumber/Rspec. My concern here is that between all of the "add this to this and such file" that I've done to try and get this working (and it's not) I've made such a mess of things that it might be better to start over from scratch. With the testing portion of the app.
I thought I would just delete the spec and test directories and re-gen the tests but I can't find a command to do that (the regen).
I've built a very simple test (assert true) but I'm getting:
D:/Dev/TheApp/test/test_helper.rb:10:in `<class:TestCase>':
undefined method `fixtures' for ActiveSupport::TestCase:Class (NoMethodError)
I think the real issue here is that I'm using MongoDb and the test architecture in Rails seems to really really want to do ActiveRecord. Not sure if those two are compatible.
Is there a quick way to build a barebones test directory? My short term solution is to just roll back those directories. Hoping for a better solution.
The blank tests are really worthless. If you didn't have tests/specs of value, then just start from scratch. And if you want to start over, you should just delete them and start new.
You could treat your code as "legacy code" as defined by Michael Feathers in Working Effectively with Legacy Code -- that is, code without tests.
Take a look at this getting started with rails testing guide over at 10gen:
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Rails+-+Getting+Started#Rails-GettingStarted-Testing
I want to get into rails by examining well built code
where can i find typical open source rails project that i can download
and learn from ?
i'm interested in facebook connect integration (facebooker), tag clouds, searching in
my website
I'm not looking not tutorials or screen casts
Thanks!
This question gives a good list
a list of projects with good test-suites
a list of open source rails apps to learn from
Have a browse of ruby tool box and download some open source. For example there's refinery and zena, two content management systems and Rboard, a forum. Depends what you want really but there's plenty out there. Ruby toolbox entries are ordered by github watchers and forks to give you an idea of their popularity.
I really like looking at the commits in teambox.
I find it a bit more complicated. But there's also spree.
There's also devise which is really interesting to look at too.
Finally, I'd recommend you to follow the rails commits (it's the only commits feed I have in my Google Reader).
Gady, this is an extremely rich topic you're asking about and resources are all over the internet. Try starting at http://rubyonrails.org/.
You should be able to find tens of questions just like yours (asked and answered) by searching SO at the top bar.
For Rails, part of it is the building process, so one feasible approach is to read a tutorial like http://railstutorial.org/book
then when in Chapter 2, you will use Scaffold, and at that time, you will have some basic code to look into how a basic Rails app is.
I also suggest you use source control like Git, Mercurial, or SVN to commit different phases of the project, from creating the rails project and then after each step, so you can diff what the changes are during each step.
If you already have Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3.0.1, and sqlite3, then you can
rails new myproj
cd myproj
rails generate scaffold foo name:string salary:integer gpa:float note:text
rake db:migrate
rails server
and now you can use http://localhost:3000/foos to create, display, update, delete the foo records, and have quite a bit of source code to look at. Most of the customizable code is in app, with css and javascript in the public folder.
Ryan Bates has an excellent series of videos.
http://railscasts.com/
An extremely valuable resource.
Radiant is a CMS that you can download for free and see how it works. It is a great piece of code to look at and see how it works.
I guess that most open source Rails projects are shared on Github, so it may be interesting to browse its Ruby section and look for most watched or most forked projects:
http://github.com/languages/Ruby
Steady stream of new interesting projects to take a look at :)
And don't forget the official:
guides.rubyonrails.org
well there is one "bigger" project on github, waiting for downloading and contribution...
but it's a little controversial because of the security issued they have (had?)
It's still worth a look:
http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
I have been developing in rails for the past 1.5 years .. however , I feel my code is not upto the mark , and I still dont fully utilize all that Ruby and Rails have to offer .
I have gone through all the material that is available on the guide site , and have incorporated that in my code . However , every time I see someone else's code , I find out new things about the language like idiomatic syntax etc . I was wondering if there are some really good code samples of rails that people can refer which would help me speed up my progress in rails . It can be anything , like some open source plugin or a app that has really high code standards .
You can start from GitHub. There are tons of Rails plugins and apps available.
Here's just a few examples:
GemCutter
Spree
Fat Free CMS
Insoshi
Plugin authors
Thoughtbot
Ryan Bates
Bynarylogic
Joshua Peek
My favorite and commonly used gem/ Rails plugin is will_paginate. Pagination is pretty common in any web applications.
will_paginate is hosted on GitHub. It works as a standard gem.
If you want to learn about Rails plugin development including how to read the code, you might want to read Plugin Patterns in Rails 2.
Have a look at Mephisto, a blogging platform written in Rails: http://mephistoblog.com/
When I run...
$ script/generate
I get a list of installed generators and a message saying "More are available at http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/AvailableGenerators." However, the indicated wiki page says "This topic does not exist yet."
Does there exist some central repository of downloadable Rails generators?
In particular, I'd like one that creates the Rails scaffolding, but uses Haml instead of ERB.
It would also be neat if it would generate the Test::Unit tests but using the Shoulda enhancements.
That wiki was a wonderful resource back in the day, but it's long gone. I threw up a archive containing that page from when the wiki started wobbling. It's dated but you can at least see what was there.
As for now, look for gems (especially plugins) to provide the generators rather than expecting them as isolated resources. The gems command can be used to find whats available.
A lot of plugins come with their own generators. The one that springs to mind is restful_authentication because I have used it quite a bit.
Edit: Did you google here?
There's Rails Boost, which is a template generator. In fact, the template you want has already been generated -- that one uses HAML and Shoulda.